Originally Posted by IDukeNukeml
Then without trying to troll or offend you, you aren't doing it right.
You can make anything, well .. anything. It just takes time if it's intricate.
Shit here I go, better do it before I start drinking...
bare with me as this is as simplistic as I can make it.
DNS - domain naming server
With this you get a name (usually almost always numbers, but i can be alpha numeric on some systems, not windows though) from a domain server, simple enough right?
IP - internet protocol
with this you get an address from the protocol identifying who you are.
WINS - windows internet naming server
this is a bit complicated, but it gives tons of options on a 2003 /2008 windows server.
If it gets half assed intricate you will need to learn to modify wins, but i doubt it will go anywhere near that far.
SO. DNS gives you your name. You get your DNS from? Your internet provider.
SO. IP gives you your address, where you live. You get IP from? Your internet provider.
SO. when you do any lookup at all except for machine name, you look up their address, you want to know where they live, so you look up there IP. NOW.
If you change your domain naming servers, when SOE says "hey mother fucker, who is you fool" the IP protocol then looks at the domain naming server, and says "fool im in china" ...........
Does that make sense? It's actually quite easy when you learn the terminology if you break it down from the start.. I had a great teacher.
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Geo-IP has nothing to do with DNS. Basically IPs are given out in blocks, and these blocks are given out to ISPs, and then registered as to which ISP they belong to, and in which country they reside. For this you don't need Geo-IP, though, just a ping using the WHOIS protocol.
Geo-IP is a technology with which a number of companies maintain a database with exact locations of connections. They get these by paying ISPs. This means they don't have all of them, but using the WHOIS protocol, they do always have the country.
DNS itself does not have location information at all. They can just happen to have a TLD that is maintained by a certain country.
http://www.ip-address.org/tracer/ip-whois.php
http://www.geoiptool.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois
I'm sorry, I studies this in the Dutch equivalent of High School.
At any rate, I still really hope that SOE will rethink the blocking of Europeans to their game servers. There are better ways to achieve whatever you need than blocking people. But that is a lesson media conglomerates don't seem to want to learn. Especially big media companies in Hollywood seem to be dead against it, which is why we have piracy now.